Open House Picks
Park Slope 576 4th Street Warren Lewis Sunday 2:30-4:30 $2,850,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 97 Park Place Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 2:30-4:30 $2,250,000 (was $2,350,000) GMAP P*Shark Beverley Square West 340 Marlborough Road Mary Kay Gallagher Sunday 1-3 $1,250,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts Gardens 275 Midwood Street Robin Cloud Sunday 1-3 $739,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
576 4th Street
Warren Lewis
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$2,850,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
97 Park Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$2,250,000 (was $2,350,000)
GMAP P*Shark
Beverley Square West
340 Marlborough Road
Mary Kay Gallagher
Sunday 1-3
$1,250,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
275 Midwood Street
Robin Cloud
Sunday 1-3
$739,000
GMAP P*Shark
re: Midwood St / Prospect Lefferts Garden. This house is on the prettiest treelined block and is approximately 5 seconds from the park. Obviously the house needs some minor cosmetic work. But please. Whoever moves in is gonna put in their version of good taste – and clearly views on good taste vary drastically as evidenced by the salmon/cobalt combo of the park place house.
The owners did all the difficult stuff for you – new electrical, roof, windows, boiler, etc. Believe me, you do not want to have to deal with those costly surprises when you move in.
Frankly, i don’t know why they would sell right now when they could obviously get more if they held onto it a little while or did some mini cosmetic updates here and there. there is a ton of untapped value in this house and this neighborhood.
I’d probably rent out one unit for a while then do an easy conversion to a single family later on.
I was there also and I agree with manofelt that you CAN hear the subway and noise from Cortelyou but it was just not that bad. I don’t think that the main draw to Ditmas Park is a “peaceful location.” I would think that the draw is that you get more house for your money in a area that is accessible to public transportation and with a very friendly small town-like vibe unlike Park Slope and other areas.
Thank you “West” for the moron compliment. Lovely.
I visited the house. It IS only a few houses down from Cortelyou (check the map.) You CAN see and hear the traffic on Cortelyou from the enclosed porch (go ahead and stand there as I did.)
And you abso-fricking-lutely CAN hear the subway, period.
But please folks don’t take my word for it. Go and see for yourself and realize just who is the Moron.
It is a nice house–no doubt–just not a peaceful location–which is, for me at least, a main reason for living in Ditmas Park.
We have looked at both the Marlborough Street and the Midwood houses today. Marlborough Street is gorgeous with owners that clearly spent a lot of attention to detail. It is one of the very few places I have seen in the last months that is in “move in confition” for me personally ie I do not need ot redo the “recently redone bahrooms” because they were not well done or rip out the 1 year old kitchen because it was tasteless. I agree it is not on the very best block in the area but I think still on a pretty good one. Not sure about the price though.
This all does unfortunately not apply to the Midwood house. Seems to be an only semiprofessional flipping job with questionable details (e.g. I would not believe that the rental is really rented out for the price that the owner states). But you cannot compare the two houses by any means, they are completely different.
Beg to disagree on the kitchen, (thanks, denton for the image!) Tile floor, tough on the feet. Copper sink sure to be dented soon (I’m all for patina, but not in a cleaning appliance.) Ugly-as-sin pretentious faucet. Overrated Wolf range, color is gorgeous, though, but set in the path of the door swing. Gloomy dark wood requiring 20 of those recessed cans we all adore to light adequately.
But then, I’m not opinionated or anything…
Looks like the 4th Street house has a width of 16.33 feet. I don’t care how beautiful the house is or how beautful the block is. Anyone why pays this kind of money for a 16.33-foot-wide house is insane. 20 feet minimum at this price.
This is a gorgeous block where most of the homes have been recently renovated and well maintained. There are one or two eyesores but otherwise a beautiful block. I must also disclose that I live in the area and that I have also been in many homes on Marlborough Road. I have been in a couple of the homes on the train side of the street and could barely hear or feel the trains probably due to good quality windows and insulation. Of course if you are outside you can hear the trains on both sides of the street but it is actually not as bad as you might think.
I have had experiences similar to West’s, when I have friends from other areas of the cty over. They can’t believe the size of my home and its proximity to the subway. Their major complaint is always the lack of ammenities but there is enough in the neighborhood to keep me local most of the time and when I need something more I go to other parts of Brooklyn like Avenue J, Kings Highway and Park Slope.
This home is priced to sell.
Heather is right. A renter’s kitchen in a $739K house shouldn’t be compared equally alongside the main kitchen in a one-family house that’s been more expensively renovated. The copper sink and fixtures in the Marlborough house are beautiful and well chosen. But it’s such a totally different situation. I’d never compare the two.
The Marlborough house location being near Cortelyou is ideal whether you get some subway noise or not. But the broker should have made the homeowner remove all the drapey things obscuring the lovely details. That arched window is great. But it’s covered in streaming ribbons of chiffon. It’s like the Diana Ross of windows. And it’s a mystery what the fireplace mantel looks like in the dining room, with that brocade thing completely covering it. Funny to hide it like that.
I have several with original from then too, but one or two newly renovated from within the last 1 1/2 years 🙂